A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes something by saying it is something else. It's not actually true but it gives the reader a clearer idea of what it is like. Extended metaphors are ...

Allegories are often described as "extended metaphors," so one way of understanding the allegory is by understanding the smaller metaphor. Whereas an allegory is a complete narrative that seems to ...

Allegories are often described as "extended metaphors," so one way of understanding the allegory is by understanding the smaller metaphor. Whereas an allegory is a complete narrative that seems to ...

The scientists involved in mapping and sequencing the genome, so this extended metaphor implies, will capture all these pages, put them in proper order and analyse the meaning of the resulting text.

But that said, risk also hovers around the much-lauded extended metaphor. Here, the danger is that an image is flogged so relentlessly that instead of a subtle what-lies-beneath, they're prone to ...